[T@H] Re: Driver held to answer on felony charges involving bicyclist

Steve Clevenger

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Subject: [T@H] Re: Driver held to answer on felony charges involving bicyclist
Date: 12/15/2008 6:38:08 PM
List: Tandem

What a jerk. And I'm being nice

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On Dec 15, 2008, at 7:48 PM, charles voigtsberger
<charles_e_voigtsberger@yahoo.com
> wrote:

> An emergency room medical doctor who cut in front of two bicyclists
> on a steep hill in Los Angeles and then slammed on the brakes on his
> car causing them to crash into the back of his car resulting in
> serious injury to both of them was held to answer on felony charges
> in Los Angeles municipal court. He admitted to an investigating
> police officer at the scene that he wanted to teach bicyclists a
> lesson. He had also had a similar incident with two other bicyclists
> earlier this year but they avoided injury by veering off the road in
> time to avoid a collision. The news commentator on the station I was
> viewing commented about the doctor forgetting his Hippocratic Oath
> to do no harm. No tandem content the two riders were on singles.
> Injuries icluded a broken nose and knocked out front teeth and a
> severly dislocated shoulder requiring surgery on the second rider.
> The doctor seems to have found it necessary to hire a body guard. In
> addition to private attorney
> fees, the smashed back window on his BMW -- which most likely will
> not be covered by insurace -- not counting possible jail time, I
> wonder how much satisfaction this nitwit got from his act. Is this
> the kind of jerk you want treating you when you go to the ER with a
> serious cardiac incident? With his lack of good judgment, the
> medical board should jerk his license too.
> Chuck Voigtsberger
> Ventura CA
>

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